Recaps

During January, Xiao Ran remained at Moon Base as Earth gradually stabilized, while the Apocalypse Unit fought the evolving Mechanical Beast Legion and lingering threats remained. The Ironclad Dragon Kingdom formally surrendered and agreed to support the campaign, as Earth’s powers prepared for future invasions and the Apocalypse Unit’s continued independence.

• Xiao Ran stayed at Moon Base and monitored Earth as Free, ZAFT, Orb, and their allies worked to stabilize the world after the war.
• Free and ZAFT’s Technicians confirmed that Ou Fan and the sentient BP units were a distinct form of life, while the military searched for Ou Fan’s missing warship.
• The Apocalypse Unit continued battling the rapidly evolving Mechanical Beast Legion, and Dankoku joined its ranks as Alien Beasts and Jupiter Lizard locusts still appeared on Earth.
• Xiao Ran noted that the Glatters Army had occupied Mars and that the Infinite Empire remained hidden, while Earth’s forces continued investigating both threats.
• Emperor Youluo and the Eight Trigrams Faction signed the Ironclad Dragon Kingdom’s surrender agreement, accepting Far Eastern territory and pledging support against the Mechanical Beast Legion.
• Xiao Ran examined the Eight Trigrams Faction for mental influence, while researchers worked to remove Himuro Miku’s Dimensional Connection System and seal it away.

Xiao Ran helped establish the New World Government, and Orb, ZAFT, and their leaders chose him as its first Speaker because only he could command the trust and respect of Earth’s factions. He accepted the position and asked Asaha to serve as Vice Speaker, leaving plans to deal with forces on Jupiter and Mars delayed while he focused on the new government.

• Xiao Ran used the unified government system from the SEED World as a model while nations negotiated the New World Government’s structure and military arrangements.
• The nations approved three-year rotations for troops serving under the World Government and four-year limits on holding its important positions.
• Orb and ZAFT supported Xiao Ran as the first Speaker instead of Asaha, surprising him.
• Asaha, Klein, and Patrick explained that Xiao Ran’s strength, prestige, and broad support made him the only suitable choice to unite Earth and establish the government’s authority.
• Xiao Ran accepted the Speakership and asked Asaha to become Vice Speaker.
• Xiao Ran postponed his plans to deal with the Jupiter Alliance and the Glatters Army so he could establish the New Government quickly.

Xiao Ran approved the Apocalypse Unit’s plan to attack Hell Island and investigate the Mechanical Beast Legion’s connection to the ancient Mycenaean civilization. After arranging for new mecha and leaving the Moon Base in Dawn, he headed to Hell Island alone to provoke Doctor Hell or Baron Ashura into revealing stronger enemies.

• Todaka told Xiao Ran that the Apocalypse Unit had located Hell Island and uncovered evidence linking the Mechanical Beast Legion to Mycenaean, and Xiao Ran approved the planned assault.
• Xiao Ran reviewed Todaka’s limited intelligence and asked Furu about the progress of the new A-class mecha, including Master Asia’s machine.
• Xiao Ran ordered Furu to speed up production, placed the Moon Base under Furu’s command during his absence, and told him to prepare Giga-Thine.
• Xiao Ran informed Lacus and Shanamia that he was going to Earth, then departed the Moon Base in Dawn for Hell Island ahead of the Apocalypse Unit.
• Xiao Ran planned to confront Doctor Hell or Baron Ashura alone and provoke them into summoning Hades or the Dark General.

Xiao Ran attacked Hell Island alone and confronted Doctor Hell, who awakened the giant King Gordon. Xiao Ran called on Baron Ashura to remember his identity and summon the Mycenaean Gods, and a painful scream answered as red lightning darkened the sky.

• Xiao Ran descended on Hell Island in the Dawn Tactical Armor and destroyed its defending Mechanical Beasts with beams, missiles, and GN Dragoons.
• Xiao Ran faced Doctor Hell atop the fortress and dismissed the surrounding Mechanical Beasts as no more than an amusement park.
• Doctor Hell summoned King Gordon, which emerged as a gigantic robot from the fortress.
• Xiao Ran called out to Baron Ashura, urging him to remember his identity and summon Hades and the Dark General.
• A scream of pain rang across Hell Island as dark clouds gathered and red lightning filled the sky.

Xiao Ran unleashed the Dawn Tactical Armor’s power across Hell Island and formed a gigantic crystal drill to attack King Gordon. As the Apocalypse, Nadeshiko, and Danner's Son hurried toward the island, King Gordon caught the descending drill and struggled to hold it back.

• Xiao Ran piloted the Dawn Tactical Armor skyward and spread GN Particles across Hell Island, filling the sky with beams of light.
• Meyrin detected two enormous energy signatures, and Todaka ordered the fleet to prepare for battle and rush toward Hell Island.
• Xiao Ran used Quantum Assimilation to destroy the Mook Unit mechanical beasts with beams formed from the GN Particles.
• Xiao Ran combined Ougang Energy, GN Particles, and his telekinesis into a gigantic crystal drill and drove it toward King Gordon.
• Doctor Hell ordered King Gordon to catch the drill, and the giant robot braced itself as the spinning drill forced its arms apart.

Xiao Ran used the Dawn Tactical Armor to overwhelm King Gordon, infiltrated its cockpit, and killed Doctor Hell before destroying the machine. After the blast flattened Hell Island, Xiao Ran turned his attention to the island’s untouched northern end.

• Xiao Ran maintained control of the clash as the Dawn Tactical Armor’s MDE Bombs and GN Dragoons breached King Gordon’s defenses and entered its body.
• Xiao Ran teleported beside Doctor Hell and vaporized him with a beam.
• With Doctor Hell gone, Xiao Ran drove the drill through King Gordon’s head and detonated it, destroying the machine and flattening Hell Island.
• A tsunami swept toward the approaching Apocalypse Unit, forcing Danner's Son to dive while Apocalypse and Nadeshiko launched their flight-capable units toward the island.
• After the smoke cleared, Xiao Ran looked toward the Apocalypse Unit, then turned his gaze to Hell Island’s untouched northern end.

Xiao Ran watched a death-dimension portal open and used the Quantum Field to repel and assimilate the spirits and emotions pouring from it. Hades and the Dark General emerged from the passage, becoming Xiao Ran’s true targets.

• Xiao Ran saw Mycenaean Gods gather around a magic circle, but waited for Hades or the Dark General to appear.
• The magic circle opened a passage into a dark dimension filled with the souls of the dead and their negative emotions.
• Xiao Ran used GN Particles as a medium for the Quantum Field’s power to repel and assimilate the spirits and emotions.
• Hades emerged from the passage, followed by the slightly weaker Dark General.
• Xiao Ran recognized Hades and the Dark General as the opponents he had been waiting for.

Xiao Ran attacked Hades and the Dark General with GN Particle beams and two MDE Bombs, then fired Tactical Armor Dawn’s fully charged cannon at Hell Island. He confirmed that the island and both gods had vanished, leaving a vast pit in the sea.

• Xiao Ran used GN Particle beams to destroy the newly resurrected Mycenaean Gods while Hades and the Dark General protected themselves.
• Xiao Ran fired two MDE Bombs at Hades and the Dark General, whose energy barriers and bodies were torn apart by the expanding black holes.
• Xiao Ran escaped Hell Island through the Quantum Field and charged Tactical Armor Dawn’s cannon with all its energy.
• Xiao Ran fired the cannon at Hell Island, vaporizing the sea and obliterating the island as a pillar of light pierced the sky.
• Xiao Ran confirmed that Hades and the Dark General had vanished from Earth as seawater rushed into the enormous pit.

After destroying Hell Island and the Mycenaean Gods, Xiao Ran left Earth for Mars to attack the Glatters Army and complete more missions. He arrived at Mars and located a nearby Glatters Army camp.

• The Apocalypse Unit's advance force found Hell Island gone, and Xiao Ran explained that black holes had destroyed it and eliminated Doctor Hell, the Mechanical Beast Legion, and the dimensional enemies.
• Xiao Ran warned the pilots to avoid the recovering Space Rampart, told them the mission would end after three quiet days, and flew into space.
• Xiao Ran saw that defeating five A-class mecha had completed his first mission and decided Glandon was no longer useful to him.
• Xiao Ran used a FOLD Jump toward Mars, while the Whale and Eagle followed him, intending to eliminate or drive off the Glatters Army before Quantum Assimilation ended.
• Xiao Ran emerged from the Jump Channel, descended toward Mars, and found the nearest Glatters Army camp.

Xiao Ran arrived at Mars and found the Glatters Army had built a massive military base there. He charged into its defenses in the Dawn Tactical Armor, and the attack left the Glatters forces scrambling as he closed on their formation.

• Xiao Ran entered Mars's orbit and spotted a Glatters Army base with numerous warships and patrol units.
• The Glatters Army recognized the Dawn Tactical Armor and activated the base's defenses, sending warships and SPTs to intercept it.
• Xiao Ran drove the Dawn Tactical Armor through the barrage, relying on its speed, GN Shield, and psychokinesis Barrier to withstand the attacks.
• Xiao Ran fired the Dawn Tactical Armor's cannons at Glatters warships, destroying two and sending wreckage crashing toward the base.
• The Glatters Army scattered its warships and sent SPTs after Xiao Ran, but he accelerated across the distance and reached the front of their formation.

Xiao Ran crippled the Glatters Army base on Mars and gave Glatters three days to surrender, withdraw, and pay compensation or face war. Flying Eagle recovered the coordinates of Glatters territory, which could be reached in one day, as Xiao Ran awaited their response.

• Xiao Ran used splitting attacks to disable the Glatters Army's SPTs, warships, and base turrets while sparing the SPT cockpits.
• Xiao Ran broadcast an ultimatum demanding that Glatters withdraw from the Solar System, surrender, and compensate Earth within three days.
• The Great Whale and Flying Eagle arrived after Xiao Ran had finished the battle, and he decided not to destroy every Glatters force on Mars to avoid provoking a larger war.
• Flying Eagle infiltrated a Glatters warship's control systems and found coordinates that put Glatters territory one day's travel away.
• Xiao Ran warned that he would act against Glatters if its answer within three days did not satisfy him.

After threatening the Glatters Army on Mars, Xiao Ran returned to the Moon Base and ordered Glaton’s execution while recovering from Quantum Assimilation. He woke the next day to find Lacus keeping watch beside him.

• Xiao Ran left Mars after demonstrating his strength to the Glatters Army, then learned from Eagle that they could not reach Glatters territory within a day with their current ships.
• Xiao Ran returned to the Moon Base, released Quantum Assimilation, and told Lacus to have PLANT execute Glaton.
• Xiao Ran sent Eagle to supervise Glaton’s execution and ensure it happened.
• Xiao Ran slept for nearly a day, then woke to find Lacus beside his bed; she explained that she and Shanamia had taken turns watching over him.

Xiao Ran told Lacus he would leave after Earth’s New Government and military were stabilized, and explained why Glaton had to be killed. When Glatters Army’s surrender arrived, Xiao Ran’s planned assault on Mars was called off.

• Lacus clasped Xiao Ran’s hand and asked whether he planned to leave once Earth’s threat was eliminated, and Xiao Ran promised to return after the New Government was established and Earth stabilized.
• Xiao Ran told Lacus that PLANT had executed Glaton and explained that Glaton’s survival could destabilize Free, Ironclad Dragon, and Earth.
• Xiao Ran revealed that he had suppressed a Glatters Army base on Mars and warned that he would destroy Glatters’s Royal Family and military if its forces refused to surrender.
• After the three-day deadline arrived, the Apocalypse Fleet prepared to depart for Mars while Xiao Ran stayed on Earth to help establish the New Government.
• Glatters Army requested a ceasefire and sent a surrender letter to Xiao Ran, abandoning his planned campaign after fearing Earth’s Space Leap Technology and Xiao Ran’s power.

Xiao Ran left Glatters’s surrender negotiations and ceremony arrangements to Asaha, who insisted Earth control the proceedings and keep the envoy away from Xiao Ran without strict security. Xiao Ran and the delegation settled a dispute over surrendering Glatters’s war leaders by agreeing to negotiate greater compensation instead, while Glatters’s forces began withdrawing from Mars ahead of the formal ceremony.

• Asaha refused the Glatters envoy’s demand to personally deliver the surrender letter to Xiao Ran and required Earth to control the ceremony and its security arrangements.
• Xiao Ran met the Glatters delegation leader for about an hour to discuss compensation, surrender timing, and ceremony arrangements.
• The delegation leader rejected Xiao Ran’s demand that Glatters hand over those responsible for the invasion, offering greater compensation instead.
• Xiao Ran accepted negotiating increased compensation rather than risk worsening relations or provoking another war.
• Glatters began withdrawing its Military Strength from Mars, while its delegation stayed on Earth pending the New Government’s establishment and the formal surrender ceremony.

After completing the mission and arranging Unified and Frie’s affairs, Xiao Ran prepared to leave the world for Prometheus. He chose Aiba Shinyo as a follower and woke in Prometheus surrounded by Aiba Shinyo and the others.

• Xiao Ran received promotion to S-class Pilot eligibility, an Ultimate Mission Card, and notice that Aiba Shinyo’s Side Mission was already complete.
• Xiao Ran completed the threats and mission requirements he could, but failed to defeat an S-class mecha in combat against Master Asia.
• Xiao Ran left most of Unified’s authority to Asaha and prepared Frie with weapons, machines, and new members.
• Xiao Ran eliminated the Jupiter Alliance’s ability to resist the Apocalypse Unit and concluded that Earth could handle the future invasions.
• Xiao Ran made Aiba Shinyo a follower and immediately returned to Prometheus with him.
• Xiao Ran woke beside Aiba Shinyo and saw Sheryl, Mwu, and the others waiting nearby.

Xiao Ran reunited with his team after their missions and learned that, despite dangerous clashes, they had recovered the technological crystallization. Luo described its vast records of the previous civilization and the UC World, leaving Xiao Ran puzzled over how G-Reco and the Black History fit together.

• Xiao Ran returned to Prometheus and greeted Cruze, Sheryl, and Mwu while Aiba Shinyo continued undergoing conversion.
• Cruze told Xiao Ran that the team had fought other participants, and Graham, Naluo, and Zechs had suffered minor injuries and lost their units.
• Xiao Ran stressed that the team’s safety mattered more than mission rewards, then learned they had obtained the technological crystallization.
• Luo explained that the crystallization contained vast records about technology, culture, society, weapons, religion, and the UC World, and proposed creating a department to analyze it.
• Xiao Ran considered the timeline relationship between G-Reco and the Black History, then ordered Luo to establish the new department after they returned to their territory.

Aiba Shinyo arrived at Prometheus after being transformed and transferred, and accepted Xiao Ran as his lord and himself as Xiao Ran’s knight. Xiao Ran brought him to Fleet World to meet the Burning Legion, then kept him with Cruze, Renard, and El-Elf as Cruze asked whether Xiao Ran had caused trouble on the mission.

• Aiba Shinyo learned about Prometheus and vowed to protect Xiao Ran during missions in other worlds.
• Xiao Ran told El-Elf to show Aiba Shinyo around the next day and led everyone back to the Faction Territory to rest.
• Aiba Shinyo noticed that Cruze seemed different from the Rau Le Creuset he had seen in his own world.
• Xiao Ran brought Aiba Shinyo, Cruze, Renard, and El-Elf to his office in Fleet World while the others dispersed.
• Cruze poured drinks and asked Xiao Ran whether he had caused trouble during the mission.

Xiao Ran told Cruze and Renard about the duplicate people and complicated relationships in the Mission World he planned to revisit. Cruze advised him to restrict access to the world and tell Kira, Lacus, and Shanamia the truth before anyone went there.

• Cruze guessed that Xiao Ran had returned from another world with a sensitive romantic complication, and Xiao Ran admitted the mission world contained ZAFT, Orb, the Alliance, and Free.
• Cruze inferred that Xiao Ran planned to return and make the world a territory, while warning that duplicated people and events could create serious problems.
• Xiao Ran explained that the world had altered versions of familiar people, including Asaha, Patrick, and Klein, and that he wanted to limit legion members' access to it.
• Renard warned that taking a large force to the world would eventually expose the situation, and Cruze recommended being honest rather than hiding it.
• Cruze advised Xiao Ran to distinguish the alternate versions of people and tell Kira, Lacus, and Shanamia in advance, and Xiao Ran nodded.

Xiao Ran discussed the hidden Faction Territory and the Mecha Wars J mission with Cruze and Renard, deciding to prepare the Legion and tell key allies before returning. After they left with Aiba Shinyo to begin research arrangements, Xiao Ran went to King Frie's Palace to speak with Shanamia, where he found her with Sheryl and Mwu.

• Xiao Ran agreed with Cruze that the Legion should be told about the additional Faction Territory before the next mission, especially Kira, Lacus, and Shanamia.
• Xiao Ran described Mecha Wars J and its Ironclad Dragon Empire technology to Cruze, Renard, and Aiba Shinyo.
• Cruze supported researching Radam Iron Man transformation technology, and Renard planned to establish a research department with Luo, Shirakawa Shuu, Yuzes, Kane, and Gilandar.
• Xiao Ran asked Aiba Shinyo to cooperate with Renard's researchers, assuring him they would not harm or affect him and that research could help Aiba Takano and Aiba Miyuki.
• Xiao Ran and Cruze discussed bringing enough forces to face the mission's three factions, while Renard and Cruze took Aiba Shinyo to make arrangements.
• Xiao Ran teleported to King Frie's Palace and found Sheryl, Mwu, and Shanamia sitting together in the garden.

After six Burning Legion and Overlord Legion members died on a mission, Xiao Ran addressed the assembled members and warned them against accepting missions beyond their abilities. Cruze and Naza outlined the training and upcoming mission plans, and the meeting ended with the surviving members dismissed.

• Xiao Ran appeared at the Legion Territory and attended a meeting where six members were absent after dying on the previous mission.
• Xiao Ran reviewed the losses and warned members to investigate missions carefully, judge their abilities, and avoid reckless challenges.
• Xiao Ran told the surviving members of the three affected squads to decide whether to reorganize or recruit replacements.
• Cruze announced the interval’s training, Merit Point opportunities, and a legion mission scheduled to begin in one week.
• Cruze reflected on the unexpected casualties, and Naza urged members to heed the lesson before dismissing them.

After planning the Burning Legion’s next mission to Mecha Wars J, Xiao Ran discovered a privilege that would let him leave Prometheus and return to his original world. Though he was unwilling to abandon his territories, Shanamia, or his Legion companions, he went to meet Naza to ask about the privilege.

• Xiao Ran told Cruze and Fardes to continue recruiting and explained that the Legion’s next Mission Card would send them to Mecha Wars J.
• Xiao Ran briefed the Legion’s core members on the world and led a discussion about bringing enough strength to suppress its factions and potentially make it a Faction Territory.
• Xiao Ran focused on advancing to S-class Pilot and preparing an S-class mecha during the rest period.
• While checking his permissions, Xiao Ran found the Return privilege, which allowed him to leave Prometheus with what he had obtained except for Legion-related things and other participants.
• Xiao Ran considered what he might have to leave behind, then met Naza privately in the Leisure Zone to ask about the privilege.

Xiao Ran learned from Naza that ordinary S-class Pilots received a temporary authority to return to their homeland, while his own authority allowed him to leave Prometheus permanently with everything belonging to him except legion-related things. Torn between returning to his true Earth and remaining with the Burning Legion, Xiao Ran decided not to leave and asked Naza to investigate other S-class Pilots’ authorities.

• Xiao Ran summoned Naza to a private room and asked what return authority S-class Pilots received.
• Naza explained that S-class Pilots could return to their homeland once for up to seven days and bring back technology and selected recruits.
• Xiao Ran compared her explanation with his panel and revealed that his authority allowed permanent departure from Prometheus.
• Naza asked whether Xiao Ran planned to leave, and he considered his ties to the Burning Legion and his desire to return to his true Earth.
• Xiao Ran told Naza to ask the other S-class Pilots about their authorities and said he was going to the Legion Hall.

Xiao Ran visited Winnie to investigate his Permanent Departure return permission, which she said did not exist and could not be found in his records. He was suddenly transported to his original personal hangar, where Prometheus's Main System began addressing him.

• Xiao Ran went to the Legion Hall and asked Winnie about his return permissions.
• Winnie explained that Brigadier General Authority allowed temporary returns, but Xiao Ran told her his permission was Permanent Departure.
• Winnie searched the records and found only the same authority listed for Xiao Ran as for other participants.
• Xiao Ran asked whether he could contact Prometheus directly, and Winnie said she knew of no way to do so.
• Xiao Ran was transported to his original personal hangar, where the Main System of Prometheus's Real Zone addressed him.

Xiao Ran spoke with Prometheus’s Main System and learned that his presence and growth had resulted from a series of accidents and compromises. The system explained that his return authorization would let him leave Prometheus permanently with his possessions, while his territory’s fate remained for him to resolve.

• Xiao Ran questioned Prometheus’s Main System about what it was and why his return authorization differed from other participants’.
• The Main System explained that Xiao Ran had entered Prometheus and survived his first mission despite having zero probability of doing so, prompting compromises that allowed his growth.
• Xiao Ran asked whether the system considered him a bug and had granted his authorization to remove him from Prometheus.
• The Main System said it would not punish or expel Xiao Ran because his actions followed the rules, and it had granted him permanent return rights under the regulations.
• The Main System said Xiao Ran could take everything he had obtained, but could not take his territory; it offered him Dimensional Gate technology so he could fix the territory’s coordinates and resolve its special state himself.

Xiao Ran questioned Prometheus about its core directives and learned that his original world was a hidden pocket universe undergoing a Dimensional Invasion. Prometheus could return him there, but could not breach the strengthened barrier again to let him travel freely between worlds.

• Xiao Ran asked Prometheus about its core directives, and it said only someone with Marshal authority could learn them.
• Xiao Ran asked why participants existed, and Prometheus answered that they were meant to protect everything.
• Xiao Ran learned that his original world was a hidden pocket universe beneath the main universe, not merely a planet.
• Prometheus explained that the hidden world's passages had been severed and that it could not forcibly breach the strengthened barrier without violating its core directives.
• Xiao Ran asked about the invasion, and Prometheus confirmed it was a Dimensional Invasion but not an invasion from the Other Dimension.